Ubuntu GNOME logo design

[itsuga at agusti.cat]

Hi all,

Alfredo has done a good work, but I think the logo is very similar to 
Gnome's.

So my proposal for the Ubuntu GNOME logo is to rotate the Gnome foot 90 
degrees so an "U" can be read,
and with this version no colour is needed to differentiate from Gnome's 
logo, so it can be black:
a png of the proposal => 
http://agusti.cat/ubuntu-gnome-logo/ubuntu-gnome-logo-agusti.png
and the svg version => 
http://agusti.cat/ubuntu-gnome-logo/ubuntu-gnome-logo-agusti.svg

What do you think?

Regards,
Agustí.

A 2013-05-25 16:27, Bastien Traverse escrigué:

> Hi all,
> 
> Kudos to Alfredo for his work. I really like the more spaced logo.
> 
> However I have the same feeling as Erick Brunzell about the colour : 
> at
> first the blue made me think of Kubuntu... Until I realized Xubuntu 
> and
> Lubuntu both used a blue circle too! How weird. But okay, blue is
> definitely GNOMish since Adwaita. So... Everything's fine here, great
> work!
> 
> Regards, Bastien
> 
> 2013/5/25 Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.designs at gmail.com>
> 
>> You're welcome. Actually, in the designs, it works a lot better. The
>> original one felt like some kind of one worded e-mail address or
>> something.
>> 
>> About colour, I think we all agree Adwaita blue is very GNOMEish and 
>> is
>> very accordant with the distro appearance. We could use other tones 
>> of
>> blue, but the one used is particularly brightish and works well in
>> several situations.
>> 
>> Regards, Alfredo.
>> 
>> Hi Alfredo,
>> 
>> Thanks for incorporating my feedback. For what it's worth, I love 
>> your
>> designs.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Dave
>> 
>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Alfredo Hernández
>> <aldomann.designs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello there,
>>> 
>>> I've finished the logo iterations, proposals for the social pages
>> branding
>>> and a very simple website mockup to see the logo in action.
>>> 
>>> Logos: http://cl.ly/image/3v3Z3C3B212W [1]
>>> Social pages branding: http://cl.ly/image/3T1a3X47420f [2]
>>> Webpage mockup: http://cl.ly/image/0b2n2u0O183r [3]
>>> 
>>> Tell me what you think, mates.
>>> 
>>> Regards, Alfredo.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 24 May 2013 01:57, Alfredo Hernández
>> <aldomann.designs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'll have that in mind when making iterations, Dave. Thanks for
>> pointing
>>>> that up.
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah, I'm also a bit disappointed about not using Cantarell (which
>> looks
>>>> fantastic), but GNOME's font doesn't look bad at all.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, Alfredo.
>>>> 
>>>> On 24 May 2013 01:25, "Dave Steinberg" <dmsteinberg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> It's great that you heard back, but too bad they don't want to let
>> you
>>>>> use Cantarell.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm newish to the list, and wasn't around for the previous logo
>>>>> discussions, but I went back and looked at the archives. I really
>>>>> liked the way Cantarell looked with the Ubuntu logo. Oh well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> One thing I was wondering about: why the lack of space between the
>> two
>>>>> words? It seems pretty clear that the name is two separate words
>> with
>>>>> a space between (from the Web site, the social media pages, this
>>>>> mailing list...), so I wonder if having no space in the logo might
>> add
>>>>> some confusion.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for all your work!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Dave
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Alfredo Hernández
>>>>> <aldomann.designs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Great new guys, Tobias Mueller and Andreas Nilsson from GNOME
>> have
>>>>>> responded
>>>>>> me about GNOME trademark use:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>> After talking to the board about this, we feel it would be
>> better to
>>>>>> use the
>>>>>> GNOME logo typeface instead of Cantarell.[...]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This weekend (I'm very busy right now) I'll make the changes to
>> the
>>>>>> previous
>>>>>> logo and I'll post the new one here in order to discuss its
>> final form
>>>>>> (if
>>>>>> we decide to use my proposal).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Also, I've been making some mockups of how the website (a design
>> based
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> the current Ubuntu website) could look like using the proposed
>> logo to
>>>>>> show
>>>>>> how it would look in a real situation. Also, I'll make mockups
>> of the
>>>>>> social
>>>>>> pages branding (Google+ page and Facebook).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Alfredo.
>>>>>> 
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